Penguins down Rangers to tie Philadelphia

The Penguins look good right off the bat. About 3 minutes in the Penguins get their best scoring chance so far as Tyler Kennedy passes the puck to Ruslan Fedotenko who crashes the net, but no goal.

Tyler Kennedy with a slapshot, blocked.

Soon after that, Kennedy drops the gloves with perennial bad boy Sean Avery. He takes Avery down no sweat.

About a minute later, Evgeni Malkin goes in one on one with a defenseman, gets around him and shoots as he is tripped up from behind. Derek Morris is called for the hook.

Penguins don’t score on the power play but a couple seconds after the penalty expires, Ruslan Fedotenko streaks up the wing, passes to Max Talbot who skates like a rocket toward the goal and shoots it past Lundqvist.

A little more than 2 minutes later, Matt Cooke gives a lead pass to Malkin, who backhands it to Talbot. Talbot shoots, Cooke smacks at the rebound and then smacks at his own rebound and gets it into the back of the net.

The Guerin-Crosby-Kunitz line is getting things done. Each on the line had a good chance but none are able to connect.

Evgeni Malkin cross-checks Callahan after the whistle and the Penguins are on the penalty kill. Matt Cooke and Jordan Staal have a chance shorthanded and then Hal Gill almost nets his second goal in two games on a pass from Talbot but there was no goal. Fleury makes a nice save on Marc Staal and the penalty is killed.

Right off the faceoff, Avery gets the puck to Callahan and Callahan scores. Brandon Dubinsky slips the puck under Fleury’s skate on the wrap around with 4 seconds left in the period.


Sidney Crosby has a great chance but he couldn’t get it in the net. Then Eric Godard and Colton Orr drop the gloves for the fourth time this season. Some nice shots from both sides but it ended as the refs came in to break it up.

Gonchar and Cooke both have good chances. Then Rob Scuderi s the puck from the goal line sends a lead pass to Fedotenko who fakes a pass to Staal and wrists in his first goal in 15 games.

Fleury makes a huge save.

Wade Redden is called for interference. Crosby has another great chance but took too long to release. Matt Cooke is in the box for holding some Ranger’s stick. Orpik starts the penalty kill off strong by smacking it down the ice. Penalty killed.

Crosby has two incredible shots but neither gets past Lundqvist. Marc Staal punches Cooke in the face but he gets 2 minutes for high-sticking. Bill Guerin cancels out the power play as he interferes with a Ranger on the faceoff.

4-on-4 hockey. Malkin was tripped in the neutral zone but no penalty is called. Nik Antropov gets the puck past Fleury. Sid goes to the goal again but is interfered with by Paul Mara and the Penguins finally get that power play. 4-on-3 for a couple seconds and then 5-on-4.

Nikolai Zherdev is in the sin bin for hooking. Crosby with another great shot, walking around the defense.

Brooks Orpik is called for tripping, but he is injured. Hopefully just a Charlie horse as he’s in the penalty box and not down the runway. Max Talbot and Pascal Dupuis go in shorthanded. Kunitz is upended in the neutral zone but no penalty is called.

Mark Eaton is interfered with along the boards and is down on the play. There was blood and Colton Orr is given the 5 minutes major (and is thrown out of the game for misconduct). For those of you who aren’t familiar with that, the Penguins can score as many goals as they want on this power play.

Chris Kunitz gets two minutes for hooking. In two minutes, the Penguins will have a three minute power play. Kunitz rockets out of the box but can’t get a goal. Kris Letang makes a diving play to keep the puck in. The penalty play is fruitless.

Kennedy has another fantastic chance but Lundqvist stops it. Then Crosby receives the lead pass from Fedotenko and Crosby splits the defense and scored a goal flying.
Max Talbot goes down and Nik Antropov goes off for interference. Penguins can’t get a power play goal to save their life.

Fleury makes a fantastic save on Antropov to keep the Penguins up. Malkin goes for the empty net but he was hooked by Drury. Penguins on the power play. Another great save by Fleury. Sid was tripped up on the way to the empty net. Penguins have a 5-on-3 till the end of the game.

Penguins win.

Pass the Carolina Hurricanes.

Tie the Philadelphia Flyers.

Philadelphia tonight at New York Islanders. Islanders shutout Detroit last night. Go Islanders.

New Jersey Devils Wednesday.

Do it.

LET'S GO PENS!!!